Dr. Michael Somogyi (March 7, 1883 – July 21, 1971) was a Hungarian-American professor of biochemistry at Washington University and the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. He prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922. Somogyi later showed that excessive insulin makes diabetes unstable in the Chronic Somogyi rebound to which he gave his name.
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7 March 1883 Reinersdorf, Austria-Hungary
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21 July 1971 (aged 88) St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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